To Us, After 2,000 Years

Yes, the title is a reference ;).

Almost 2,000 years have passed since the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the 1st century.

And for those 2,000 years, Christians have long believed His return was just around the corner, just around the next time there’s an earthquake.

The problem is we need to read our Bibles.

None of those events look like they are occurring right now.

Are we on the doorstep of another global conflict?

Yes.

Does that mean it’s the last days of the last days?

No.

It’s been 2,000 years.

What if Jesus doesn’t return for another 2,000 years?

Why do we get to decide when He returns?

There was a giant upheaval among many Christians that 2028 would be the year of the Second Coming.

But now that we’re in 2026, nothing remotely prophetic has occurred.

Honestly, WW2 and the Spanish flu were far worse than anything happening now.

I suppose you could see the Iranian Revolution of 2025-2026 as something that could turn prophetic insofar as Daniel 8 describes 3 kings of Persia rising first, then a fourth that will fight with Greece.

Historical Persia had 12 kings that arose after that prophecy was given, so it’s clearly the End Times as the angel sent to Daniel says multiple times in Daniel 8 and 11 regarding that prophecy.

Pahlavi might be the first of these kings. That would mean there are three more to follow him.

But if that’s true, we’re still nowhere near the events happening.
I won’t be quoting Scripture in this post because I want this to be a sobering and thoughtful post without getting too complex.

Egypt must be wealthy in the End Times to the point of the Antichrist taking their riches. You can read about this in Daniel 11:40-45.

After studying the Bible for a long time, I’ve realized Christians always assume Jesus will return in their generation, as they have for the past two millennia.

But when I read it, so many events must occur that will take centuries to millennia to unfold.

If I’m generous, then I’ll say decades.

We have a modern State of Israel in our time, which is interesting.

But it doesn’t seem to be the theocratic, Temple-worshipping Israel of the End Times.

Speaking of that, there needs to be a standing Jewish Temple in Jerusalem for these events to occur.

Jesus gave us one sign to watch for that will let us know for certain. That is the Abomination of Desolation from the prophecies of Daniel 11.

That might happen in 600 years or even 15,000 years from now. “Whoa! That’s a vast number.”

But we don’t know.

Jesus is not bound by limited human time.

And there are people out there who think the same God who created dinosaurs millions of years before us is not ancient enough to wait for that time span.

We might have a society that visits other worlds before the Second Coming of Christ.

Young-Earth creationism sees events as happening within 6,000 years. But the problem is, the oldest societies are far older than 6,000 years.

Did Satan make history go wrong to trick us into thinking Göbekli Tepe is older than 6,000 years?

Or is it just that this ancient culture arose 11,000 years ago?

You don’t have to be a moron to be a biblical believer.

The light of ancient stars shows the universe to be billions upon billions of years old.

God has plenty of time on His ethereal hands to work out His plan of salvation and human history.

He created dinosaurs and ancient plants that would turn into fossil fuels in our modern age millions of years ago.

Don’t be surprised if His timeline is longer than the 21st century.

There were no human deaths before the Fall, with animal death being debatable.

Some of the mechanisms of this universe wouldn’t work without death always being there.

Back to the last days, though.

The Bible shows a giant megacity unlike any other being a prominent component of the End Times.

That is not a thing yet.

The best candidate, NEOM, Saudi Arabia, isn’t close to being built yet. Economics and history will have to shift for these events to play out.

The Antichrist makes war with angels in heaven and can ascend to it.

Sounds sci-fi if you ask me.

Speaking of that, the Mark of the Beast is something that will be enforced for everyone, and those who do not take it will be killed by the Image of the Beast.

The technology (though I suppose demonic beings could do something there) needed for this mass system is something we cannot fathom yet.

Perhaps the mark is something sci-fi novels and shows haven’t even imagined.

If these events take place after 10,000 years, what type of technology will humans have?

Hypotheticals aside, let’s be sober about Christ’s coming.

Seven churches no longer exist but seem to reemerge in the last days—meaning we aren’t there yet.

The kingdoms of Daniel 7 aren’t around yet (though perhaps the lion with eagle’s wings is the UK and US in some circles of thought).

No matter how you look at it, these events are not likely to happen until well past 2050.

There might even be a time of relative peace and stability before the horrible events of the last days.

The 2028 guys must really be sweating right now.

Centuries-worth of events must happen in less than three years for them to be correct.

Jesus does not have to return in our lifetime. And that’s OK.

Look at the LDS Church. They’re named after the concept of being in the last days, but their prophet couldn’t even get that right, let alone that Babylon the Great is an End-Times city, not a church (he referred to Catholicism, I believe).

The Millerites were disappointed in the 1800s.

September 2025 came and went.

And 2028 will also come and go.

Could I be mistaken?

Certainly.

But the Bible seems to show a world far different from our world today, one where idolatry of gods is rampant as well as technologies we can’t fathom.

Perhaps science will discover a Creator and there will be some sort of shift in religion to where even the atheists try to make sense of God with their own interpretations of such a being from their mental framework, leading to mass idolatry in a high-tech way.

Who knows, really?

The Bible is full of examples of the last days being full of idolatry in a literal sense.

Something major will have to happen to the world for atheists to change their tune.

I long for Jesus to return, but I might die before that happens.

That’s OK.

And do I watch?

Yes.

But watching also means realizing the precursors aren’t there yet.

Blessings and shalom to you!